Richard Rösch

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Richard Rösch (born July 2, 1874 in Frankenberg , † October 18, 1936 in Cunewalde ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and journalist .

Life

Teaching and first political activity

Richard Rösch, son of a master weaver , first learned the carpentry trade and came into contact with the social democratic workers and trade union movement during his years of traveling in Aachen . During this time he also met his future first wife Lina Mitterhauser (1879–1971), daughter of a social democrat. Lina Ege-Rösch was also politically active and was a member of the Prussian state parliament as an SPD member from 1919 to 1928. In 1901/02 he worked as an editor and head of the Aachener Volksblatt .

After the couple separated, Rösch moved to Dresden in 1908 and initially lived here in Friedrichstadt . In 1910 he married the second marriage to the cigarette worker Bertha Rausendorf (1884–1963) from Cunewalde near Bautzen. During the First World War he served as a member of the Landsturm and was used to guard prisoners of war.

Working as a local politician

In 1917 Richard Rösch joined the newly established left wing USPD , but returned to the SPD in 1922. From 1923 he represented them as a city councilor in the Dresden city council and took over the chairmanship of the party. As a spirited speaker and with great expertise, Rösch was particularly committed to combating the housing shortage and campaigned for the improvement of the situation of the unemployed. He was also a member of several committees and supervisory boards in various municipal companies. Among other things, he was a member of the committees for housing and small apartment construction and was a member of the administrative board of the Dresden gas, water and electricity companies , the administrative committee of the Dresden employment office and the nutrition advisory board . He also represented the SPD in the Saxon Community Chamber and in the Saxon Community Day .

View of Richard-Rösch-Strasse in Dresden-Trachau
Former Residential house in Richard-Rösch-Str. 40

Professional activity after the First World War

Richard Rösch initially worked as a sales manager for the Independent People's Newspaper from 1917 and from 1922 was the editor of the Dresdner People's Newspaper , which, with a circulation of over 50,000 copies, was the organ of social democracy in Eastern Saxony. The politician, who is very familiar with the problems of the housing issue, became the first managing director of the “non-profit housing and home society for workers, employees and civil servants” (Gewog) in 1927. Together with the architect Hans Waloschek , Rösch managed the construction of the large housing estate Trachau with inexpensive small apartments, which is considered the best-known example of New Building in Dresden at the time and caused a sensation nationwide because of its modern architectural design in the Bauhaus style . In 1930 he moved into one of these buildings (Kirchhoffstrasse 40, today Richard-Rösch-Strasse). He was also a member of the supervisory board of GEWOBAG, which was also involved in the construction of the estate, and of Dresdner Baugemeinschaft GmbH.

In his role as Gewog managing director, Rösch was one of the initiators for the construction of the Volkshaus in Riesa and, as chairman of the association of independent organizations "Dresden-Cotta eV", campaigned for the preservation of the Volkshaus Dresden-West, which opened there in 1928 . The aim of these buildings, maintained by the SPD and the trade unions, was to provide rooms for cultural and political events and thus to create meeting places for working-class families close to where they live.

Arrested in 1933 and death

This development ended abruptly when the National Socialists came to power . With the ban on the SPD and the compulsory dissolution of all free trade unions, Gewog, as a union-owned company, was also confiscated and Rösch dismissed as managing director. He was arrested in March 1933 and taken into “ protective custody ” in the Mathildenstrasse detention center until the end of April . After being ill-treated, he was allowed to return to his family and shortly afterwards he moved to his wife's home in Cunewalde. In 1936, the former SPD politician who was seriously ill due to a stroke, severe nervous disease and diabetes died.

Honors

On July 1, 1946, in accordance with a city council resolution of May 28, 1946, the former Kirchhoffstrasse in Dresden-Trachau , where Richard Rösch once had his residence, was renamed Richard-Rösch-Strasse.

literature

  • Yearbook on the history of Dresden , volumes 1973–1977, published by the Institute and Museum for the History of the City of Dresden, 1977, p. 27.
  • Klaus Brendler: The local politician Richard Rösch , in: The architect Hans Waloschek, Ed. Pedro Waloschek, 2008, ISBN 9783837080841 , pp. 109–110.
  • Rudolf Förster: Biographical notes on Dresden streets and squares , Museum for the History of the City of Dresden, Dresden 1976, p. 62 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lina-Ege-Rösch's biography at www.leverkusen.com , accessed on June 24, 2014
  2. ↑ Michael Klöcker: The social democracy in the district of Aachen before the 1st World War , in: The labor movement in the Rhineland, issue 6, Einhorn-Presse-Verlag, 1977, p. 213.
  3. ^ The large housing estate Dresden Trachau. History and renovation , in: The buildings of modernity in Saxony, Ed. Werkbund Sachsen eV, Dresden 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Rösch, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1936
Place of death Cunewalde